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HERRINQSHAWS LIBKAKV OF AMERICAN BIOORAPHV. he was a missionary of the American baptist missionary union in Assam, India. In 1901-03 he was assistant secretary, in 190305 was editorial secretary, and since 1905 has been corresponding secretary of the American baptist missionary' union at Boston, Mass. He is also editor of the Baptist Mis^iionary Magazine. He is a noted prohibitionist; and has contributed extensively to current literature.

Haggen, Edward Alexander, mining engin«'er and editor of Vancouver, Cnnacia. was born March 3,1860, in Dunediii.XfW Zealand. He was educated at Dunedin academy and at

otago university.

He

ilid

tor several railroads, coal

explorotion work

and mining explor-

ations in British Columbia, the I'niled States and Alaska. He is a commis-^ioner of the supreme court: an«l editor of the Mining and Engineering Record.

Haggott, Warren Armstrong, lawyer, congressman. waH born May 18, IStll, in Sidney, Ohio. He was educated in the Xenia collecp in Ohio and at Valparaiso eollrge in Indiana, where he received the degree of n.S. Hp taught for fourteen years in the juiblic schools of Ohio, Texas and Colorado. Since 1899 he ha^* practiced law; and has been engaged in mining. In 1903 O.*; he was lieuteniint governor of Colorado; presided over the state senate; and was acting govf-rncr five times. Tn 1007 09 he was a representative from Colorado to the sixtieth

battery.

field

and

wars;

civil

He

served in the Mexican and attained the rank of

brig-idier general and colonel, lie was invpootor of the factories making small arms for the governniont when he was assigned to the command of the Watervleit arsenal. In 1881 he « is retired. He died March 11, 1893. in Wasl.ingfon. D.C.

Hagood, Johnson, lawyer, was born

Virginia. Until 1813 he practiced Charleston, S.C. He also devoted mur>h attention to natural sciences; and was interesfi'd in the .itudy of electricity and galvanism. He died in 1816 in Charleston,

law

in

S.C.

Hagood, Johnson, soldier, governor, was

He 1329, at Barnwell, S.C. in the conin 1862. After the war he was presidrnt of the South Carolina state agricultural society; and chairman of the Iward of vi«»itorB of the South Carolina milHe died Jan. 4, 1898, in itary academy. Barnwell, S.C. U.rn

F.b. 21.

was appointeorn July 13. 18_><]. in Washington. D.C. He settled iii Annapolis, Md.. in the practice of law; and in IS.W was judge advocate- of a naval court In 1864 of inquiry. hf wan a special judge in

Minn.; and in wn**

(ieorge's

rrin«-<'

He was Hagner, C. E., lawy«'r. jurist. judgH of one of the I'nited Statea territorial courts sometime prior to 1884. Hagner, Peter, public official, was born Oct 1, 1772. in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1817 iie was appointed third auditor of the treasury (lepartnit'iit and continue<l in the public

He was twice service for fifty-seven years. honored bv direct vote's in the two houses nf coiigres-*. He died July 10. 18.'>0. in Wash ington, D.C.

in 1771

West

in

congress as a republican.

county. .Md. and in 1870 was ju«lge advocate of a general court martial lield at San Cal. In Fr:incisco, 1851 he was a repthe resentative in .Maryland legislature; was twice a aindidate for eoiigr»"*> and In in 1848 79 practiced law in Maryland. 1879 he >as appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, which jx>sifion he still fills.

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Hagner, Peter Valentine, soldier, was born Aug. 28, 1815, in Washington, D.C. He served on topographical duty and took part in the Florida campaign of 1836-37 with a

the

Young

pastor

189*1

of

93 the

baptist church at Ne<>ark. III. In 189.5 96 he was the editor of People's Papt-r of Sweden.

Hague, Arnold, geologist, author, was bom Dec. 3, 1810, in iJoston, Mass. He is a geologist in tee grjvemmcnt service. He is the author of Volcanoes in California. Oregon, and 'ashington Volcanic Kocks of the (treat Baun; Nevada, with Notes on the Oeologv- of the District; Volcanic Rocks of Salvador; and Crysfaliizjition in the Igneous Hocks of Washoe. Hague, James Duncan, mining engineer, author, was lK>rn Feb. 24, 1836. in Boston, Ma's. He was formerly attached to the I'nited Slates geological survey; and wrote a work on Mining Industry, published by the goverfmenl. Hague, Mrs. Parthenia Antoinette, litterateur, author, was born in 1838 in OeorShe is the author of A Blockatl^d Fam;ria. ily; or Life in Snnthern Alabama rluring tho

Ciil

War.

Hague, William, clergyman, author, was 4, 1808. in Pelham. N.Y. He was

born Jan.

,